Sacramento Film and Music Festival 2009

Todd finds a flyer for a feminist film festival on the same day he finds a book by the renowned documentary filmmaker, Ivan Libragi. Newly inspired, he reaches out to Libragi to help him in his quest to make an epic film about the women in his family. Libragi finds Todd to be an epic moron and offers to help him not at all, but gleefully decides to end his 20-year hiatus as a filmmaker to document Todd?s heroic ineptitude. A high-school classmate, Rebecca, is strangely eager to front the money for Todd?s project and head to points unknown. Suddenly, Todd has a mission, money and a crew, thanks to a local commercial director, Brandon, and his bumbling assistant, Greg.The gang then embarks on their Journey to Courage ? a trip to Spokane, Washington where Todd?s relatives live for some reason. Filled with a passion that only the truly ignorant can muster, these ?documentarians? descend upon the poor unsuspecting women in Todd?s family. Thanks to no particular skill, they stumble on the compelling story of the mysterious disappearance of Todd?s grandfather. Despite the strange parallels to his own life, Todd somehow ignores the obvious pull of the story, choosing instead to pursue his own asinine ideas. In the course of said pursuit, Todd gets blackmailed by his grandmother, stripped of his funding, and accused of kidnapping. Having lost his film, his pride and the love of his life, Todd is pushed to the edge . . . literally.